The Department of Energy has introduced a new partnership program that connects grid operators, utilities, government agencies and other energy stakeholders to grow the United States’ clean energy power grid. The Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange program is designed to reduce wait times for clean energy sources and reduce costs to connect to the grid. Partners under […]
General Dynamics Information Technology has secured a task order from the Department of Defense to deliver a suite of Microsoft Office 365 applications for the U.S. Marine Corps. The award is under the 10-year, $4.4 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud contract. Under the task order, GDIT will work with computer company Microsoft to deliver […]
Space engineering services provider a.i. solutions has secured the U.S. Space Force‘s potential seven-year, $217 million Prototype Operations I contract to support the Space Systems Command‘s Innovation and Prototyping Directorate. Under the POPS-I indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, a.i. solutions will lead a team that will provide support for concept development, readiness, launch, on-orbit testing and evaluation, operations […]
The Department of Homeland Security‘s human resources system that is designed to hire cybersecurity specialists has so far hired one employee since it was deployed in November 2021. The first employee that was hired through the Cybersecurity Talent Management System was onboarded on the week of May 23, and another employee is expected to be […]
Trey Theimer is a senior vice president and the chief growth officer at government services provider Serco. She has been with the company since November 2021. Theimer oversees the growth of Serco North America, which serves public sector clients in the U.S. and Canada. Serco North America offers management, modernization, logistics and various support services […]
Brandon Ginsburg is a senior vice president and the chief growth officer at national security solutions provider NT Concepts and is a Potomac Officers Club member. He specializes in business development, investment and customer and competitive analysis. At NT Concepts, Ginsburg accelerates company growth within the national security technology solutions market. He also leads the […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon Missiles & Defense a $624 million contract to produce 1,300 Stinger missiles. Raytheon will also provide engineering support, equipment testing and other support services needed to address obsolete systems, modernize key components and accelerate production. The contract is being funded by the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act. The Stinger […]
SailPoint Technologies has secured an In Process designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its software-as-a-service identity security platform. The SaaS offering uses an agile, intelligent and always-on approach to meet federal agencies’ identity security requirements. If the solution receives a full FedRAMP authorization, it will provide agencies and other organizations with […]
Raytheon Intelligence & Space is leading the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Better Extraction from Text Toward Enhanced Retrieval program. Under the program, the company is developing the Cross-Lingual Extraction for Versatile and Effective Retrieval end-to-end system, which is designed to retrieve documents from vast amounts of foreign language text and extract mission-relevant information. The […]
Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and a 2021 Wash100 winner, has announced the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health as an independent entity within the National Institutes of Health. The establishment of ARPA-H was authorized through the enactment of Public Law 117-103. The agency’s function […]
